Improvement in sewing-machine casters



w. ALTICK.

SEWING-MACHINE CASTER. 10.176.732 :Patelnted'May 2,1875.

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UNITED STATES WILLIAM ALTIcK, 0E DAYTON, OHIO. ,A

IMPROVEMENT IN SEWING-MACHINE CA-STERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,732, dated May 2., 1876; application filed To all whom it may concern l Be it known that I, WILLIAM ALTIGK, of Day-ton, vin thecounty of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SewingMachine Gas, ters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

I l vention distinctly pointed out in the claim.

`To enable others skilled in the art to which my` invention appertains to make and use the same, I would thus proceed to describe it, re-

ferring to the Aaccompanying drawings, in

Which- Figuiel is a sideelevation of my improved caster. Fig. 2 is a plan View ofthe same with the rollersremoved. Fig. 3 is a central sectional view in elevation of the caster-shoe and a diamond-.shaped foot.

p Corresponding letters of reference indicate like vparts in all the figures. y

A represents what I denominate the castershoe, cast of any metal, and consisting of a bed from the sides of4 which extend the upward and laterallyeurved arms o, whose ends form bearings for the spindles of the casterrollers B.` These rollers are of the usual shape, and have their .spindles secured in February 16, 1876.

sockets in the extremities of the arms c, in any convenient manner. At one end of the bed of the shoe A is a recess, either formed i feet of the machine, as is the case Where holes are made for the passage of screws intended to secure the casters to the feet.

I am aware that casters employing two Vrollers to each foot have been used, and therefore lay no claim to their use in this manner, nor'do I separately claim any of the devices herein employed; but,

4 Having fully' described my invention,'I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-1 The herein-described sewing-machine cas-- ter, consisting of the shoe A, plate b', formlinga recess at one end, and clamping-plate c'., at the opposite end, provided with afslot for the passage of the set-screw d', when they respective parts are arranged as described, and mounted upon rollers B, in the manner and for the purpose speciied.

Witness my hand thisllth day of February, A. D. 1876. y

WILLIAM ALTICK. Witnesses: p

CEAS. M. PEoK, WM. RITGHIE. 

